For Health Care Providers

National Immunization Awareness Week (NIAW) is an annual event held in the last week of April to highlight and recognize the importance of immunization. Canada’s NIAW coincides with Vaccination Week in the Americas and World Immunization Week.

During NIAW, you will see increased publicity about the importance of immunization and the success and impact that immunization has had in protecting and saving lives. Many organizations, in Canada and around the world, participate in international strategies to raise awareness about the important role of vaccines.

Immunize Canada invites you to celebrate National Immunization Awareness Week with us from April 20 to 27, 2019.

Social media calendar for NIAW2019 – March and April 2019

Hashtags for social media:   #NIAW2019   #VaccinesWork   #GetVax

 

Resources

Immunize Canada has gone green! Please note that, now that stocks are depleted, Immunize Canada will no longer be providing printed resources. Once our NIAW2019 resources are available for download, you are welcome to print them. Our resources will remain available online for free, and will be kept up to date! If you have questions, or if you wish to obtain high-resolution files for printing, or if you require adaptation of any Immunize Canada resource, or insertion of your organization’s logo, please contact the Immunize Canada Secretariat.

Videos

Safia talks about living with post-polio syndrome. She encourages everyone to be up to date with their immunizations.

Mallory is mother to a child who cannot be vaccinated. Her son relies on community immunity for protection.

Posters

The following posters include the winners from across Canada from our 2018 National Immunization Poster Contest. (Please note that no submissions from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, or Newfoundland and Labrador were received for the 2018 Poster Contest.)

Adult Immunization Record: Are you up to date?

Social media images

Celebrate NIAW2019 with these activities:

 

Read a short article about Canada’s National Immunization Awareness Week.